Robbie Gonzalez

Looking to reclaim a little sense of wonder? Check out this breathtaking new footage of Swiss pilot Yves "Jetman" Rossy zooming around Japan's iconic Mount Fuji with an eight-foot-wide, rocket-powered, carbon-fiber wing of his own invention strapped to his back.

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"It's really impressive," said Rossy of Japan's highest mountain, though, let's face it, he really could have been talking about his own unfathomably mettlesome grit – the man literally flies around at 185 mph on a quad-rocket jetpack HE BUILT WITH HIS OWN HANDS (but we digress). "It's a perfect form, a huge mountain, a huge volcano, a presence that you can feel on the ground and also in the air."